Report writer output (MB vs GB or TB)

I've tried searching for an answer to this, but to this point no luck; and I figure someone can give me a quick answer to it.

I've been given what I thought was a simple task of creating a simple report of the historical storage use of a particular server. The only issue I'm having is that Orion is outputting the disk usage in either GB or TB which doesn't provide the resolution my manager is looking for.

I haven't seen any way in the GUI to change the output, and while I looked at the SQL, I have no experience with it, or does it look like I can edit it directly.

Can someone shine some light on this?

Thanks

SSDD

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lchance

I don't know if you've done this before, but here's another perspective on disk space usage on a single node.

This can either be emailed to your manager or else posted in Orion.

Drill down into the node detail view, to the disk drive, and make a disk usage chart report on last 12 months for instance and set your size, fonts, etc and select PRINTABLE VERSION.

Save the URL from this printable version and use that in a scheduled email or else a custom html in your Orion web.

Here's an example from one of my nodes:

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lchance

Would selecting this report template be better to get a percent usage - percent available, rather than by bytes?

jkemp

That is a solution I didn't think of, and might be worth looking at. The manager wants to see the change in MBs month-by-month, and while your idea wouldn't give me that, it could be calculated.

SSDD

lchance

I don't know if you've done this before, but here's another perspective on disk space usage on a single node.

This can either be emailed to your manager or else posted in Orion.

Drill down into the node detail view, to the disk drive, and make a disk usage chart report on last 12 months for instance and set your size, fonts, etc and select PRINTABLE VERSION.

Save the URL from this printable version and use that in a scheduled email or else a custom html in your Orion web.

Here's an example from one of my nodes:

jkemp

Thanks, using that method I was able to get the data I needed, though it would have been easier if SW would allow the changing of units in report writer.

SSDD